Cooking help required...panic over...

[woofmarkthedog]

Did you know ?

A King size cigarette weighs exactly 1 gram

W**F

[dita-on-tees]

Dont skip the cherry chocolate - they were great and i was loving the bits of cherry in the brownies. Take a recipe, make it your own with a secret ingredient. Ladymuck's famous brownies!

[DJKillaQueen]

Here are the brownies in question.....they all went...along with Dita's fabulous Everton cupcakes - what more could my Brithday need?

[Ladymuck]

ooooh fame at last LOL!

Queenie: could we have a pic of dita's Everton cup cakes now please?

Note: Dita could I have Manchester United cup cakes for my birthday please? And possibly some Dulwich Hamlets ones too LOL?!

[DJKillaQueen]

Happy to oblige.... :)-D

[Ladymuck]

Thank you, offical cake photographer!

Though I would have preferred red and white of course!

That icing - notwithstanding being the colours of a team currently positioned seventh (*snigger*) in the premier league tables - was absolutely delicious. Yum!

[DJKillaQueen]

Seven is a lucky number and I do believe the official photographer was French....!

[Ladymuck]

Not as lucky as 3! Which is where man U are at present!!!!

The photographer? Ah tres bon! Je m'en r'appelle maintenant. Trop de Sambuca hier soir...mais que c'est delicieux...ah oui! Aujourdhui...seulement de leau...

Comment va ta tete? Et ta jambe?

[DJKillaQueen]

My head is fine...my leg is sore.

[binary_star]

Blimey dita they're a bit fancy - is that glitter AND silver balls??? LM those brownies look lovely too!

Erm, are you members yet?

[DJKillaQueen]

After the conversation we had last night of doing a calendar with carefully placed footballs, we should be >:D

[binary_star]

Cripes, well what was said dahn the pub stays in the pub apparently. In that case, wont you be needing some ermm rather large balls, ahem? The futsal number 4 wont cut it I can wager!

[DJKillaQueen]

I was thinking inflatable beach balls!

[waynetta]

LIE Jacob's cream crackers on a 'mattress' consisting of two slices of processed cheese wrapped in kitchen paper, before buttering. This will help to distribute pressure evenly across the back of the biscuit, and thus prevent cracking.

[Ladymuck]

binary_star Wrote:

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> Erm, are you members yet?

They wouldn't have us. I applied, begged even, but no...

[dita-on-tees]

If everyone in the WI was like Helen Mirren I think I would be ok with it. I really enjoy "traditional feminine pursuits", jam making, sewing etc, but I also like getting raucously drunk and talking c*ck. I find these aspects of my personality had to reconcile in polite meetings.

[karter]

Thank Dita and LM for your cooking advice. Have not had a chance to prep anything yet due to being in Kings last night (no bar fight i promise). Today will be a yummy day. Ta.

[Ladymuck]

HELP!

I've just started to make Irish Soda bread. I don't have any cream of tartar. Can I substitute with something else? I have baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.

HURRY...

*panicking...*

[Peckhampam]

Hope its not too late. Bicarb is fine

[Ladymuck]

Thank you for coming back Peckhampam - very helpful of you.

I'm all sorted now - should have updated this thread (sorry, I was in a bit of a tizz earlier). Cate, another forumite, came to the rescue on another thread (suggested vinegar). It worked! Bread out of oven and half eaten. Not sure if it is as it it meant to be - crusty base and top - but it's very tasty. Delicious in fact. Ate it warm with some garlic and herb butter and pumpkin soup.

Peckhampam, I should have said earlier, but the recipe already had bicarb in it. Would more bicarb still have been fine? (Just curious).

BTW, bread grew to about twice it's size - it's MASSIVE! Didn't expect that.

Once again, cheers for posting.

[karter]

hmmmmm not sure which chef is better following here, hal or Lm?

[Ladymuck]

Me of course. I don't do tinned, jarred, or citric acid! Call rusty face a chef? Pfffft....

[EDKiwi]

And LM makes 'special' brownies if I remember correctly.

[Ladymuck]

You have an excellent memory EDKiwi!!!

BTW, really nice to meet you properly on Friday.

Do you cook much? And are you any good?

[EDKiwi]

Well I like to cook but my home cooking seems to have diminished somewhat since we came to the UK, less free time on my hands I guess. Must try harder to change that.

And it was nice to meet you properly too, pity I had to bow out at the CPT but I had work the next day, sounds like it was a good night.